Open Library
Biography
Real lives, stranger than fiction.

From the Ruins of Empire
Pankaj Mishra

The Canadian portrait gallery
John Charles Dent

Notes to Self
Emilie Pine

Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage
Richard Holmes

20th Century Journey
William L. Shirer

Ambassador's journal
John Kenneth Galbraith

The literary life and correspondence of the Countess of Blessington
Richard Robert Madden

Purcell
J. A. Westrup

My lifetime in letters
Upton Sinclair

Walter Lippmann and the American century
Ronald Steel

Lives of the queens of England, from the Norman conquest
Agnes Strickland

Walden and Other Writings
Henry David Thoreau

Anatole France
David Tylden-Wright

Enter night
Mick Wall

Autobiographic sketches
Thomas De Quincey

Balzac
Stefan Zweig

Trotsky
Ian D. Thatcher

Karsh
Yousuf Karsh

Memoirs of celebrated female sovereigns
Mrs. Anna Jameson

Oleander, Jacaranda
Penelope Lively